Known as the “Butcher of Addis,” Mengistu was the leader of the Derg, a military junta that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1991 and carried out a brutal campaign of repression called the “Red ...

Waiting for take-off alongside the top military officials from the Derg – Ethiopia’s communist dictatorship – sit artists, poets, historians, economists and businessmen. “Nobody is left in ...

Bekele Mekonnen, an assistant professor at the Ethiopian Fine Art School, stands as one of Ethiopia’s most revered ...

The highly anticipated Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX) has now been officially launched, considered as an important move to see a vibrant capital market ecosystem in the East African nation. In ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed rang a Wall Street-style bell to officially launch the country’s first stock exchange in ...

Ethiopia was set to launch a stock exchange on Friday, the latest step in Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s attempts to liberalize the struggling economy. The first company to be listed on the exchange is ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed rang a Wall Street-style bell to officially launch the country's first stock exchange in 50 years on Friday, part of efforts to liberalise the struggling economy.

Famine had once again taken hold in Ethiopia, this time in the midst of the rule of Mengistu Haile Mariam. Mengistu was the ruthless leader of the Derg, a military junta that ruled Ethiopia for ...

Ethiopian political satire, which cost its author his life, has been translated into English for the first time — and remains as contemporary as it was when it was first published ...